{"id":204905,"date":"2020-03-26T21:39:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=204905"},"modified":"2020-03-26T21:40:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:40:16","slug":"covid-19-lagos-govt-converts-stadium-to-isolation-centre-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=204905","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Lagos govt converts stadium to isolation centre [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Lagos State Government has started construction of another Isolation Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The state is converting a section of the newly renovated Mobolaji Johnson Stadium in Onikan.<\/p>\n<p>When ready, it would have a consultation section and space for health officials.<\/p>\n<p>The facility would also be used to carry out test on individuals with coronavirus symptoms and accommodate patients.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, equipment like the Air Conditioners and beds were fixed.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-774302 lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201008%20567'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-Lagos-converts-stadium-to-Isolation-Centre-Photos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"567\" data-=\"data-\"><\/p>\n<p>Work continues and it is expected that the centre would be fully ready Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the Lagos State House of Assembly passed into law an emergency COVID-19 bill.<\/p>\n<p>It empowers Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to spend an initial N20billion.<\/p>\n<p>The global pandemic has caused 22,000 deaths and affected 200 nations.<\/p>\n<p>There are 51 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria; majority are in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-774303 lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201008%20567'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/03\/1585254327_292_Coronavirus-Lagos-converts-stadium-to-Isolation-Centre-Photos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"567\" data-=\"data-\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Government has started construction of another Isolation Centre. The state is converting a section of the newly renovated Mobolaji Johnson Stadium in Onikan. When ready, it would have a consultation section and space for health officials. The facility would also be used to carry out test on individuals with coronavirus symptoms and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14571,3],"tags":[5661,14575,250],"class_list":["post-204905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-babajide-sanwo-olu","tag-covid-19","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/204906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}